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UNITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

FERDlNAND LEMME AND CHARLES LEMME, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALT- FORNIA.

BELT-BUCKLE.

Specification fc rlning part of Letters Patent No. 47,556, dated May 2, 1865.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FERDINAND LEMME and CHARLES LEMME, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented a new and Improved Belt-Buckle and we do hereby declare that the within is a full and exact description ot' the same, ret'erence being had to drawings, making a part ot' this specification. y

y The nature of our invention consists in providing a buckle in which the plate or shield is segregated and held together by means of a hinge, so that the buckle may be easily unclasped by raising one-halt of the shield.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our improvement, We will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

NVe make the plate or shield of gold, silver, or other metal. This plate is segregated and held together by means of a hinge, which eX- tends through the whole length of it. y Underneath this plate and on one side of the hinge is placed a stationary cross-bar and tlan ge, which are held in place by means of two standards with space suflicient between it and the plate to admit of passing a ribbon or belt. Underneath the other half of the plate or shield iswhen the part having the tongue upon it is pressed down upon the belt, holding it rnily and forming a complete and unique shield and buckle. i

For the purpose ot unfastening this belt all that is necessary is for the wearer to contract the body or expel the breath from the lungs, and at the saine time lift up that part of the shield having the tongue upon it and the buckle is unfastened Without further trouble.

In the drawings,Figure 1 represents a front view of the shield or plate, in which A and 13 are the leaves. C represents the hinge.

Fig. 2 is a back view, in which A and- B are the sides or leaves of the plate. C is the hinge.

E is, the cross-bar to which the belt is attached.

Figs. 3 and 4 represent D as fastened to one leaf of the shield and the tongueor teeth F to the other, and resting against D or the flange, which serves to keepthe belt in its place.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the buckle.

Fig. 4 shows an end view, with the hinge openedto allow the ribbon to be attached.

Having thus described our improvement, what we claim as our invention, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the cross-bar and flange D and E with the tongue F, in combination with the main plate or shield A B C, when the parts are connected and fitted to produce the result substantially as described.

F. LEMME.

CEAS. LEMME.

Vitnesses: A

C. W. M. SMITH, CARL GULLMANN. 

